Twilight Quotes - Page 20

• The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

  Adrienne Rich

  Long, Nineteen, Vixens

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Feelings, Doubt

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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• A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Law, Darkness

  "Madness and Civilization". Book by Michel Foucault, trans. by R. Howard, 1988.

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• Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Thinking, Soul, Depth

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• If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.

  Paul Krugman

  Order, Space, Fake

  "Paul Krugman Calls for Space Aliens to Attack Earth Requiring Massive Defense Buildup to Stimulate Economy". "Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.newsbusters.org. August 14, 2011.

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• Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.

  Lola Ridge

  New York, Night, Flames

  Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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• Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

  Fear, Doubt, Doctrine

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862). “The Recreations of a Country Parson”, p.325

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• I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, California, Space

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• Im a Harry Potter fan, a Twilight fan, and I think The Hunger Games surpasses them all.

  Malese Jow

  Thinking, Games, Fans

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• The breath of springtime at this twilight hour
  Comes through the gathering glooms,
  And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower
  Into my silent rooms.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.320

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• Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cunning

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.420

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• it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Mistake, Sight, Fog

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.129, Vanderbilt University Press

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• I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.

  Naomi Wolf

  Pregnancy, Opportunity, Self

  Naomi Wolf (2011). “Misconceptions”, p.87, Random House

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• Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.

  Helen Eustis

  Hours, Indecision, Worst

  Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.69, Library of America

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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Sunshine, Doors

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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• this kiss between hermione and ron is highly anticipated, it's been building up for eight films now. and harry potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Kissing, Eight

  "The SUNDAY FUNNIES: Emma Watson Puts Twilight on Blast and Peter Morgan Calls Out Tony Blair" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Star Trek was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And Twilight Zone is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from Being Human sit down and have marathons to get our little Twilight Zone fix.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Stars, Down And, Littles

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• Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  Truth, Perfect Days, Shade

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• If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

  Robert Pattinson

  Hate, Ideas, People

  "Robert Pattinson interview: Reality bites". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• The other night I went out to have dinner in a London pub and the barmaid had this whole conversation saying, 'You look just like that guy from Twilight'. Every time she came up, she said something like, 'You literally could be his brother'. But she never put two and two together.

  Robert Pattinson

  Brother, Night, Two

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• I think fans are just obsessed with the 'Twilight' saga and then within it they might have preferences between if they're Team Jacob, Team Edward or Team Jasper. It just comes down to them loving the whole thing, and if they can get any of the boys from the book they are fine with that.

  Kellan Lutz

  Team, Book, Boys

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• Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

  Tariq Ali

  Democracy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was that these series of elite failures created this crisis of authority which was fertilizing distrust in the pillars and institutions of American society. In the absence of that authority there's this vacuum which is easily filled by authoritarian solutions, and I think that's exactly what happened.

  Chris Hayes

  Past, Thinking, Absence

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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